1991 Grand Marquis

[87gtVIC]

I may look into this stuff further once.

[91grandmarquis]

The 3m is like $20 for a pint or whatever which is enough for about 10 seasons of it, I used maybe a 10th of a bottle on my car. Mothers and maguires make hand glaze as well, but I haven't tried it.

[87gtVIC]

Does this remove every minor speck of dirt in the paint like a clay bar does? I cannot see how it can do that without causing damage.

[91grandmarquis]

You have to clean the car first, then dry it with a shammy. The glaze will take out small specs, and it takes surface scratches out pretty much completely. I would reccomend getting the tar off first as it can smear. It isn't meant to take dirt out, but it wont hurt anything if every spec isn't gone. My understanding is that clay bars smooth the paint and take the old layers of wax off. I dont like the idea of touching my car with a clay bar... but like I said, Ive seen some nice shiny rides done that way. It is all in what you like. *hint... the waterspots left on your car if you don't had dry it before this will stay under the glaze if you leave them... so youll want to make sure it is hand dried.

[91grandmarquis]

So I went for a ride and snapped some pics on some back roads.... the last one most people in keene probably don't know exists. There is an 80s crown vic always at the farmhouse at the base of the hill, he passed me on the way up heading into town so sorry no pics.

















and after some photoshopping.....

[Leafsrule16]

Should throw some tint on that.

[91grandmarquis]

I would, but you cant tint the front at all... and the police are kinda snippy around here about it. I think Im going to take the cats off and bang out all that useless internal junk though.

[Leafsrule16]

I think that thing would look unreal with some limo tint all around, or even just on the backs.

[91grandmarquis]

Yeah it would... but until it isn't my daily anymore I dont want to deal with the police. At night the windows look solid black and it looks sick.

[Lincolnmania]

Ahh not again lol.

yes, we are going to get all your underhood wiring wet at scottfest

[87gtVIC]

Once the car is painted I swear I will clean it.

Car is looking great man. Nice areas by you.

[gabegt90]

nice pics mang I love the backrounds

[91grandmarquis]

Thanks.. I love the old dirt roads... but some of them are not to grand marquis friendly.... she gets me most places though.

[91grandmarquis]

Alright... this time I have some more interesting pictures... I present to you a completely re tuned ignition system.... except for the coil to distributor wire, I will explain after the eye candy.










And one that is not so blurry (sorry camera sucks at dusk)


A "glory" shot (she knows shes got some nice parts in her now)

Damn those raccoon eyes were the best investment yet.


Oh yeah here is our other panther...





Ok... here is how it went.. overall not as bad as I thought, passenger side sucked hairy burning balls of hell, but could have been worse. I didn't have to remove the motor mount an jack the engine up or any stupid retarded shit like that, just cut my hand on some brackets, and then had to scrub the grease out of my wounds after... Usually happens with everything I work on regarding vehicles so I am used to it. The coil to dist. wire was a "Make your own length" you can call me a vagina and say I wasn't doing it right all you want... but after 45 minutes of that shit for making one end... Fuck that I used the motorcraft wire until I can find a wire that I can just order and is the right length.

Also (this is quite funny, and ironic) Some fucktard put the wrong plugs in my car... so the NGK Iridium plugs I got were about twice as long (regarding the part that goes into the block). So I thought they sent me the wrong plugs.... went to a few different stores and asked to see the plugs for my car, all were the same as the NGK, and the lady at advanced auto looked up the NGK # and told me they were the right ones. This also happened on the TownCar, although it is a 4.6... some fucktard put short ass plugs in and we had a friend who worked at ford do the tune up... the plugs he got were twice as long. Long story short I bumped the engine over a couple times just to be sure... because I was not about to smack a piston into the plug... everything was fine and it cleared.

Car runs like a top now.. no hesitation and a little better response, which was more than I expected.

parts include...
MSD cap and rotor,
Moroso Blue Max Wires (beefy sons a bitches, anyone know where I can find wire looms for a 10mm wire?)
NGK Iridium spark plugs... $8.00 a piece, ouch.
Moroso HO Performance coil pack.

also did the coolant flush and changed the radiator hoses, thermostat, air and fuel filters last week.

While I had the air box off I cleaned the engine up a bit with some windex so P72ford would be happy (or at least pretend to be ).

[1980c10]

Looking good im jelous of your plug wires I love those things. Crazy question are you H.O. or just have the name plate?